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JP City Advisory Board

Main objectives

The main purpose of the “City Advisory Board” is to intensify knowledge exchange between the EERA JP on Smart Cities and their key-stakeholders, the cities. Being introduced as an important element of the JP´s organizational structure, the Board acts as a forum to express cities needs and to enable knowledge transfer with the overall goal to jointly accelerate and shape the smart cities transformation process.

Members

Name

Position

City

Country

Anne Charreyron Perchet

Senior Advisor for Sustainable Cities, Department of the General Commissioner for Sustainable Development

not assigned to a City

France

Bernd Vogl

Head of Municipal Department MA 20

Vienna

Austria

Darren Capes

Transport Systems Manager, City of York Council

York

UK

Gunter Amesberger

Director City Development, Urban Administration

Linz

Austria

Hans Christian Christiansen

Senior Advisor, City of Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Denmark

Hans-Einar Lundli

Head of the Climate and Energy Group, Environmental Department

Trondheim

Norway

Hendrik-Jan Bosch

Senior Policy Coordinator and Strategist within the Programme Office for Sustainability and Climate Change in the City of Rotterdam

Rotterdam

Netherlands

John Batterbee

Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), Strategy Development and Programme Management in the Energy Sector

not assigned to a City

UK

Kari Kankaala

Executive Director for the City of Tampere

Tampere

Finland

Leszek Drogosz

Director of Infrastructure Department

Warsaw

Poland

Manel Sanromà

CIO of Barcelona City Council

Barcelona

Spain

Marcin Wróblewski

Chief Specialist in Infrastructure Department

Warsaw

Poland

Nadia Busato

Delegate for the Smart City Programme

Brescia

Italy

Pasquale Capezzuto

Energy Manager

Bari

Italy

Pedro González Torroba

Director for Economic Development and Smartcity, Madrid City Council

Madrid

Spain

Silja Bjerke Vestre

Special Advisor, Climate and Energy, Department for Environmental Affairs and Transport, the City of Oslo

Oslo

Norway

Wouter Cyx

Project Leader & Consultant Energy & Climate

Antwerp

Belgium

Xavier Normand

Project Manager Sustainable City

Grenoble

France

Activities and Duties

The members of the City Advisory Board have been kindly asked to use all reasonable efforts to give input and feedback to the programme´s objectives and activities.The anticipated activities of the Board´s members have been categorized into the following two priority levels:

Priority Level 1 – requiring strong commitment:

Provision of “real cities needs” in urban transformation processes

Evaluation of the usability of newly developed tools, methods and concepts